Augusto Pinochet

Alberto Encinas History 101 12/3/15 Mr. Benkert Then end of communism brought peace not only in Europe, Asia, Africa but at our close neighbors in the south Chile. Chile lived under the a repressive dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet. The Chilean dictatorship was maintained by U.S economic and military support but the relationship began to weakened in the early 1980s as the economic problem in Chile started to make the regime less to tolerate. At the end, the cold war tensions

Nacional de Informaciones, or CNI, which was the last Chilean secret service agency, also admitted to being a part of over 50 cases of torture during Pinochet's regime (No, Larrain, 2012). The campaigns against his renewal ended up successful and Pinochet was forced down as his role of dictator, which finally opened Chile up into becoming a more democratic country. Pinochet's plebiscite of returning as leader for another eight years had lost with about 43% of the votes in favor. He then stepped down

My reasoning behind using Burma and Chile, is that these two cases are both similar in the fact that the factions were important in demanding change, but both obtained different outcomes. The reason why I believe that Burma failed in its attempt to become a democratic state, was due to having an enormous amount of participants that were willing to die for democracy, but overall their movements lacked in quality. According to Chenoweth and Stephan, "internal disunity and the presence of multiple armed

dreams of the animals of living a just, happy, and free life. This pattern is also reflected in the rulings of both Mao Zedong and Augusto Pinochet. Although these leaders were happily welcomed into the arms of their peoples, they, later on, commit horrible acts that went against the principles of justice and morality. According to Alan Axelrod "...the onset the Pinochet regime engaged in gross human rights violations under the Doctrine of National Security" (Axelrod 1994). Over the course of his

incriminating documentation revolving around President Nixon and Henry Kissinger, the CIA denies direct involvement by the U.S government in the events that followed. On the 11th of September 1973, the Chilean Armed Forces under the command of General Augusto Pinochet began the overthrow of the democratically elected Socialist President Salvador Allende. Under Pinochet's reign, 250,000 people were detained,

Summary Military Coup of 1973 Military Junta Arrest and Court cases in Britain Death SUMMARY -Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, born November 25, 1915, in Valparaiso, Chile joined the Chilean army in 1935. He went up the ranks and in 1973 he was appointed Commander in Chief by President Salvador Allende. Pinochet led the military coup that overthrew Allende a month later. After 25 long years in power, he was put under arrest and died in 2006 in Santiago, Chile, before he could be tried for alleged human

The Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who became the head of the military regime in nineteen, seventy-three is also considered another modern day tyrant. Like Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin, Augusto Pinochet abused human rights and was very unfair to certain types of people. Along with Augusto Pinochet, Pol Pot of Cambodia led the Khmer Rouge in nineteen, sixty-three, until he ended that career and became a general

War has been present among humans ever since prehistoric times. The world has seen many ideologies opposed and accepted for centuries. One such ideology is that of Karl Marx, communism. Communism is an ideology made by Karl Marx, which supports economic equality through the elimination of private property. Mass protests have taken place over the years between countries that are facing war against communism. America was facing a battle of communism in Vietnam, which was then divided into two separate

Pope John Paul II: Influence on the World Pope John Paul was one of the most influential persons of the 21st century. He changed the way the Catholic Church looked at the world and vice versa. Unlike most other predecessors, he stressed on dialogue and understanding among the people of the world. He sought to bring the people of the world together through the message of both love and peace. The role he played in destroying communism and bringing dictatorship around the world to an end gained wide

democratization, along with the poor economic performance of Allende that hindered democratization. During Pinochet’s first years of leader he experienced a high levels of economic performance that hindered towards democracy. However, in the early 1980s Pinochet experienced a bad economic performance that led to the doubt of society about his regime and power. This contributed to